MOVIE REVIEW – BANJO (2016)

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Today we are here with the review of the movie named BANJO (2016) released this Friday with Riteish Deshmukh and Nargis Fakhri in lead roles, directed by Ravi Jadhav and music given by Vishal Shekhar. It is a movie based on the life struggle of talented Banjo Band from the Chaals of Mumbai. Riteish Deshmukh has taken a risk by playing solo hero as a Banjo player in a movie when his multi star movies are performing remarkably well.

In the opening credits, the movie mentions that it is dedicated to street musicians all over but as the movie starts it is off colour. The film maker put every bollywood masala in the film like a crime scene, love story, emotional twists and rival gang and result of which effects badly to the film.

The movie is like many other movies based on music and dance. BANJO is a story of a budding NRI girl Chris (Nargis Fakhri) living in New York who is impressed by a group of Banjo players led by Taraat (Riteish Deshmukh) who comes all the way to Mumbai for searching their part time band for composing two songs for entry in a music festival in US.

Taraat (Riteish Deshmukh), who is known as ‘Banjo ka Bachchan’ works as part time extortionist with local Corporator when he is not playing Banjo but he is very helping and very loved one among his Chawl walas.

Will Chris be able to help Taraat and his Banjo Band get the recognition and respect they deserve is what the film has in its kitty.

While talking of direction, Jadhav has given us complete Mumbai feel of Worli and marks for capturing Ganpati Festval.

What’s Good:

Some peculiar dialogues that gives you comic relief in an otherwise boring film. Look of Riteish as a Rockstar is also good.

Loop holes in the movie:

Unnecessary love angle when main focus should have been Banjo.

Useless characters such as Pandit who is Chris’ friend’a uncle.

One of the most silly scene of the movie was that when the band was performing live at a club and during the song, all the four performers were dancing (Hello Director Sir, they are Banjo players not dancers).

Star Peformance:-

Riteish Deshmukh as Taraat in the rockstar look this time tries hard to impress in this heroic role but a half-hearted script pulls him down. If Banjo was written any better, the fate of the film could have much different.

Nargis Fakhri as Chris is completely disappointing. She lacks body language while performing American budding musicians. Her trying American accent is even more pathetic.

Luke Kenny as Mikey is impressive and his Marathi speaking dialogues funny.

Dharmeah Yelande doesn’t get to dance much in this film but he played his role efficiently.

Final words:

If you love such movies with bands and their uprising, you will surely love it. Otherwise it is passable.

My ratings for this movie is 2.2 out of 5 stars.

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